Is Fouts now a parking lot?

Coach Andy Mac · July 22, 2019

Edited July 22, 2019 by Coach Andy Mac

ADLER · July 22, 2019

Have the areas which were formerly occupied by Fouts Field and the adjacent practice fields been converted into a parking lot? Are the lots completed, or will they be completed by football season?

Parking was a real issue the last time we hosted Houston in 2011. A significantly larger crowd is expected for this season's game, and these additional lots would certainly help the situation.

Edited July 22, 2019 by ADLER

Texas Stranger · July 22, 2019

Parking was a real issue for LT game last year (especially exit). Need a better plan this time around. More Orange and less Blue/Red game day sales.

trud1966 · July 22, 2019

1 hour ago, ADLER said:

Have the areas which were formerly occupied by Fouts Field and the adjacent practice fields been converted into a parking lot? Are the lots completed, or will they be completed by football season?

Parking was a real issue the last time we hosted Houston in 2011. A significantly larger crowd is expected for this season's game, and these additional lots would certainly help the situation.

So, NOW we have the added Blue Lot that was completed, ehhh around mid to end of last season? But trying to remember, seems like all of the ORIGINAL Blue Lot wasnt 100% completed by that first game, like it got expanded some a year or so after?

.Maybe I'm remembering it wrong?

golfingomez · July 22, 2019

whoa that's crazy...

sad to see her gone, but happy that i never have to think about tailgating in that God-forsaken parking lot again.

97and03 · July 22, 2019

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greenjoe · July 22, 2019

I suggested to Wren that a plaque be placed at the goal lines or at midfield to let people know what was here for over 50 years.

Edited July 22, 2019 by greenjoe

Cr1028 · July 23, 2019

Many memories

meangreenlax · July 23, 2019

I hope they intend on dressing up that sea of asphalt with trees or something. The only thing worse than a lack of parking is a big ugly multiacre patch of cheap asphalt.

GreenN'walinsVet · July 23, 2019

5 hours ago, ADLER said:

Have the areas which were formerly occupied by Fouts Field and the adjacent practice fields been converted into a parking lot? Are the lots completed, or will they be completed by football season?

Parking was a real issue the last time we hosted Houston in 2011. A significantly larger crowd is expected for this season's game, and these additional lots would certainly help the situation.

The fouts area and its adjacent parking areas is now being paved over. They evened out the landscape, put in a central road leading from the entrance to the fouts lots on No. Tex BLVD all the way down to the service road just east of Bonnie Brae. They have put a bunch of islands with grass and trees (similar to the red/blue lots by apogee). Currently they are probably 40% done or so, but looks like it will be fully operational by labor day. They are also adding a bus depot in the east end of the lot across from the Super Pit.

Jason Howeth · July 23, 2019

20 hours ago, greenjoe said:

I suggested to Wren that a plaque be placed at the goal lines or at midfield to let people know what was here for over 50 years.

I agree. I hope they do what a lot of places do and make some markers on the pavement that outline where the field was.

meanrob · July 23, 2019

“This is where Booger wreaked havoc” on sixteen plaques around the parking lot.

untcampbell · July 23, 2019

I am sure the players can provide much more insight, but having played in at least one gmg.com bowl game (benefiting the Andrew Smith scholarship fund), I can attest to the fact that Fouts Field WAS a parking lot. If even for just the post-death penalty $MU game and the Booger Baylor game, that parking lot will hold sentimental longings until I pass. But it WAS a parking lot.

GMG

UNT86 · July 24, 2019

My only question is, did they leave the turf under there?

GreenN'walinsVet · July 24, 2019

26 minutes ago, UNT86 said:

My only question is, did they leave the turf under there?

it was as hard as concrete, could have saved some $$$ if they did.

rws69 · July 24, 2019

Looking across 35 from the Apogee lot a week or so ago, it looked like lighting is also going up there.

Philip Ferguson · July 25, 2019

On 7/22/2019 at 2:52 PM, Coach Andy Mac said:

We'll always have Necessary Roughness

Cerebus · July 25, 2019

On 7/22/2019 at 7:26 PM, meangreenlax said:

I hope they intend on dressing up that sea of asphalt with trees or something. The only thing worse than a lack of parking is a big ugly multiacre patch of cheap asphalt.

Long term plan is to have a parking garage, a bus terminus, and intramural fields there. Remember, the plan is for all students, and most staff, to park across the highway and bus onto campus.

UNTLifer · July 25, 2019

Opera House still on the horizon?

Edited July 25, 2019 by UNTLifer

UNTLifer · July 25, 2019

I was thinking, drama students have a theater, voice students get an opera house, music students have the Murchison. Shouldn’t our Jazz students have a speak easy in which to hone their craft?

meangreenlax · July 26, 2019

6 hours ago, Cerebus said:

Long term plan is to have a parking garage, a bus terminus, and intramural fields there. Remember, the plan is for all students, and most staff, to park across the highway and bus onto campus.

My understanding is that it could be 20+ years before they build a garage on that location. I was in a talk with the director of transportation or whatever a couple years ago and he said they're still paying off the one they built on the other side of campus. The cost per parking spot is almost cost prohibitive.

ADLER · July 26, 2019

I remember the huge Mean Green Eagle on Fouts that faced I-35 for decades.

I also remember how sad it was when I saw the dismantled eagle components sticking out of the construction dumpster during renovation.

I wish I had at least kept the head for prosperity's sake. Oh wait, I did.

MrStrange18 · July 26, 2019

12 hours ago, ADLER said:

I remember the huge Mean Green Eagle on Fouts that faced I-35 for decades.

I also remember how sad it was when I saw the dismantled eagle components sticking out of the construction dumpster during renovation.

I wish I had at least kept the head for prosperity's sake. Oh wait, I did.

Prooooove it

meangreendork · July 26, 2019

On 7/22/2019 at 6:23 PM, greenjoe said:

I suggested to Wren that a plaque be placed at the goal lines or at midfield to let people know what was here for over 50 years.

I was hoping that some of the architectural features - mainly those column-toppers would be incorporated into Apogee somehow, even if it was just one of them as a historical marker.

Christopher Walker · July 26, 2019

18 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

I was thinking, drama students have a theater, voice students get an opera house, music students have the Murchison. Shouldn’t our Jazz students have a speak easy in which to hone their craft?

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17 hours ago, meangreenlax said:

My understanding is that it could be 20+ years before they build a garage on that location. I was in a talk with the director of transportation or whatever a couple years ago and he said they're still paying off the one they built on the other side of campus. The cost per parking spot is almost cost prohibitive.

Debt service on parking structures is massive as those buildings cannot serve any other purpose - the way the load distribution and bearing is designed, etc. It's just nearly impossible to make any other kind of building out of a parking structure, so it would require complete demolition for something else to be there.